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Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Coming out and coming of age in the days of AIDS, MTV, Reaganomics, and Just Say No. Daron Marks is a young guitar player with a dream, make it big like the guys he grew up idolizing in New Jersey--or at least escape his dysfunctional family. He makes it as far as music school in Rhode Island, and the rock clubs of Boston beckon him. But it's hard to succeed from the closet. A story of how finding one's self is key to finding love, and loving one's self is key to loving another. Winner of the Rose and Bay Award for Crowdfunded Fiction!

Cecilia Tan is "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary
American erotic literature," according to Susie Bright. RT
Magazine awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015 and
their prestigious Pioneer Award. Tan's BDSM romance novel Slow
Surrender (Hachette/Forever, 2013) also won the RT Reviewers
Choice Award in Erotic Romance and the Maggie Award for Excellence
from the Georgia Romance Writers chapter of RWA.

Tan is the author of many books,
including the ground-breaking erotic short story collections Black
Feathers (HarperCollins), White Flames (Running Press),
and Edge Plays (Circlet Press), and the erotic romances Slow
Surrender, Slow Seduction, and
Slow Satisfaction (Hachette/Forever), The Prince's Boy
(Circlet Press), The
Hot Streak (Riverdale Avenue
Books), and the Magic University series (Riverdale
Avenue Books). Her short stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine,
Nerve, Best American Erotica, Asimov's Science Fiction, and tons
of other places. She was inducted into the Saints & Sinners Hall
of Fame for GLBT writers in 2010, was a recipient of the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the National Leather Association in 2004, and
won the inaugural Rose & Bay Awards for Best Fiction in 2010 for
her crowdfunded web fiction serial Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

She lives in the Boston area with her
lifelong partner corwin and three cats. Find out more at
www.ceciliatan.com.

Editorial Reviews

"For me, Daron is one of those rare fictional characters that I have a hard time believing does not actually exist on the physical plane. He is just too real. Part of it is that Daron is only a couple of years older than me and the way the 80s are brought to life here reminds me very much of my own coming of age: the musical references, the language, the AIDS scare, the technology, the hair... Most of all, though, it is the fact that Daron is an extremely well written character. He grows and changes and engages." —Gay Book Reviews